#griot

sinners would make a phenomenal trilogy - but not in the way you think.

so the opening monologue has annie talk about three groups of folk singers who can pierce the veil between the living and the dead, right?

the griot (west african),

the filidh (irish),

and the fire keepers (native american).

in sinners, we got a movie about the griot: sammie, and i think there are two equally compelling stories out there to tell with each of the remaining groups.

personally, i would love it if they did an irish folk horror movie about the filidh, potentially with ruari o'connor (orpheus, "sandman") or donal finn (orpheus, "hadestown") and tom glynn carney (aegon ii targaryen, “house of the dragon”) as a pair of brothers faced with a similar threat like remmick, touching upon the divide between the native irish identity and that of the colonised/displaced irish community.

and lastly - but certainly not the least - one about the fire keepers, with alaqua cox (maya lopez, "echo") as a deaf fire keeper and anna lambe (kayla prior, "true detective: night country”) as her skeptical sister, which could explore the tradition of oral history amongst indigenous tribes, the effects of genocidal colonialism, and how music can truly pierce barriers regardless of disability.

This is a direct download of a PDF so be aware of that before clicking: https://teachers.yale.edu/download/units/09_01_08.pdf

This is a class proposal by someone else on a class on griot, but also gives history, background and context on griot and griotte. I thought people might be interested in reading it. Remember, the more you read things like this, the more that Joseph Campbell gets upset in his grave that you are actually celebrating own voices and learning that not everyone in the tropics are cannibals. (I have a whole post on the racist beliefs of Campbell) I would absolutely LOVE if all regions of the world could teach this sort of thing too. We need to legitimize more than the 3-act story in the public mindset.